Madden NFL 97

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Publisher: EA Sports

Game: Sports

Ratings:

9 out of 10 from Computer Player

NFL Football Madden Style!

The legendary gameplay that has made John Madden Football the #1 sports game of all time fuses with state of the art 32-bit technology. The result: the most authentic NFL experience to date on the PC.

Technology:

Motion captured Hi-Res graphics and animations featuring real NFL players.

Modem and Network Play

TV-style presentation

• John Madden & Pat Summerall call the action
• James Brown in the EA Sports Studios

Madden University

• Interactive Football Tutorial
• Exclusive Team Scouting Reports
• Illustrated with NFL Films Footage
• Over 1 Hour of Full Motion Video

Multiple 3-D Camera Angles

3-D Rendered Stadiums

CD-Quality Stadium Sound

Save Replays

Real NFL Football

Over 100 Past & Present NFL Teams

Full Season with Playoffs and Super Bowl

Over 500 Plays from Madden's Playbook

General Manager Feature

• Create players at any position
• Player trades

Over 500 NFL Player Portraits

Custom Playbooks

10 Real NFL penalties

Head-to-Head Coaching Challenge

• Strategic Play Calling
• Player Substitutions

Player and Team Stats tracked all season

Requirements: Windows 95 or MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, Pentium, 60MHz or higher, 40 MB minimum hard drive space free, 8MB RAM, 1MB SVGA (640x480) VLB/PCI video card with VESA compatible driver, 2x (PMC2 compliant) CD-ROM drive, MSCDEX 2.21 or higher, mouse (with real mode driver), Sound Blaster or compatible sound card, 9600 baud modem (modem play only), real mode LAN-IPX drivers (for network play only).

Recommended: 16mB RAM, Pentium, 133MHz or higher, Sound Blaster 16 sound card, 54 MB hard drive space free, Gravis Gamepad, 4x (MPC2 compliant) CD-ROM drive, 2MB SVGA video card, 14400 baud modem (modem play only).

Supported: 100% Hayes compatible 9600 bps modem or higher with 16550 UART chip, null modem for two player direct connect, Gravid GrIP.

Sound and Music: Sound Blaster, SB Pro, SB 16 and 100% compatibles, Gravis UltraSound, Microsoft Windows Sound System, Esonic Soundscape, Media Vision PAS 16, Roland RAP-10).

Reviews:

Computer Player, December 1996

"The video-game console versions of EA's Madden football series have always been a favorite of gridiron enthusiasts, but the PC versions have never been able to capture the blend of action and control that made the cartridge versions so popular. Technology has a way of catching up with things, however, as can be clearly seen in EA's new Madden NFL 97 for the PC; it definitely rivals the latest 32-bit gaming console versions of the game."

"There are plenty of computer football games with great graphics and animation, of course, but where Madden 97 excels is in its control, which nearly equals that of the console versions. The onscreen player response to the controller input is particularly accurate, especially if you play with a digital gamepad. The only downside is that Madden 97 supports only a two-button joystick configuration, so many of the moves available in the console versions are missing (e.g. stiff-arms and hurdling). You can still break tackles and shake off defenders with button two, but the computer decides whether you do a spin move or a speed burst according to your player's situation."

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